We kick off this episode announcing a BRAND NEW CONTEST before we get to discussing how you can help build a community around your podcast.
In this week’s Better Podcasting download we’re going to re-open that previous hot topic of RSS feeds and Google SEO – with some new discovered information.
Finally, in this week’s Better Podback we’ll take a voicemail from a listener who chimes in on some recent topics, as well as other messages from listeners.
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This podcast was recorded on Friday, May 26, 2017 – Streamed Live to www.Geeks.Live. Audio/Video Production by Stephen Jondrew of GonnaGeek.com
Audio Clip Credit:
– “The Feed: The Official Libsyn Podcast” – Episode 91 – “091 RSS SEO Myths, Podfest and Proclaim” Full episode available at thefeed.libsyn.com
– John Mueller during “English Google Webmaster Central office-hours hangout” on August 11, 2015. Full episode available at www.geeks.link/rssseo
– Golden Heil PR40 Bump – Emily Prokop of The Story Behind Podcast available at thestorybehindpodcast.com
Links Discussed:
- www.geeks.link/googlerss – Companion Article With Screen Shots of Items Discussed
- www.geeks.link/podcastseo – Article Discussing John Mueller’s Quote
- www.geeks.link/rssseo – Direct Link to YouTube Video with John Muelle
- www.geeks.link/googlerssvideo – Followup Video Created June 10, 2017 with the further examples of search results.
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Audio Version:
Gents,
I rushed home and fired up a private chrome browser and typed in “Ask the Podcast Coach” waiting to see my Libsyn feed come up in the search results. I’m on page three with no luck. What were your typing in to get the RSS to show up in a google search?
Hey hey, Dave! Thanks again for listening to the show, we greatly appreciate it. I don’t know about you but as someone also long in the website building game, this RSS indexing thing actually has me weirdly excited. I always love seeing major changes by Google because I know that there’s been a ridiculous amount of money put in to analyzing the change, and it means there is some form of mysterious reasons that Google knows about on why the change happened. I love to just speculate and speculate on why (well at least speculate in my head) :D
To better answer your question – the first link in the links above (http://www.geeks.link/googlerss) is to the companion article where I included screenshots. The ones in-line are google.ca incognito and then at the bottom are Firefox Private Mode and then Google.com Incognito. I didn’t want to get too technical on the podcast but I know you like techy so I’ll share with you here. At work all my traffic is routed through Quebec (Google will actually show that on the bottom) and that’s where I first noticed it was there too – so I’ve seen the results both through Quebec and BC. :)
I hope the screenshots in the article help too. Thanks again for listening.
Ok – your post got me looking more. I just discovered a site that called https://isearchfrom.com/ which seems to help make Google think you’re elsewhere. I just spot-tested Seattle, Orlando and Dallas and they did appears on page 3 – two had it as the third results down, one was the second. This is in-line with my previous couple tests that the result did move a bit depending on the location, but still relatively the same. Also, SP confirmed similar results too which are also at the bottom of the companion article.
Can’t wait to see what else Google does with this indexing – I’m intrigued. :)